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With filthy winter colds raging across the country, I’ve been dosing everyone
with my Jewish 36-clove garlic soup. It is powerful medicine with a dual
action, since it comforts and cures the afflicted and also keeps them from
spreading the disease orally, for obvious reasons. It’s also a lot more
delicious than Lemsip.

Garlic soup is a wonderful thing, if you’re not one of the unlucky 20 per cent
who can’t stand the bulb. I’ve experimented with it for ages, even going
into garlic overdose when I made one with 72 cloves, that’s six heads. (Mild
nausea, if you want